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" I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles. "

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" But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time. "

" I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done. "

" You don't wanna mess up what you've done. It's like Jordan coming back: You're scared to mess up the legacy. "

" When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie. "

" I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners. "

" My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme. "

" Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out. They don't want to and they don't have the means to sustain it. That's where my heart is and that's what I think about all the time. "

" Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that! "

" Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else. "

" I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean? "

" Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy. "

" It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who've done music well and movies well, and y'know, Frank Sinatra and Elvis and all these dudes have made the transition. I don't know about Elvis, 'bout doin' 'em good, y'know? It's nothin' new. "

" I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time. "

" For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them. "

" I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them! "

" If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever. "

" I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really. "

" I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all. "

" I have a lot of milestones that I'm proud of when it comes to music, 'Amerikkka's Most Wanted,' I'm extremely proud of that. Just because of what I had to go through to get that music produced, that album produced. "

" What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out. "

" I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen. "

" I've been caught in parachute pants. And on my high school yearbook, they used the wrong picture. They were supposed to use the picture of me with a nice suit on. They used me with my collar flipped up, in a fuchsia and white striped shirt. I blame Prince and Michael Jackson in the Eighties for that. "

" I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills. "

" Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion. "

" Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing. "

" Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, 'You don't have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin' look like jerkin.' "

" Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is. "

" I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain't going nowhere. I'm going to die with that in my casket. "

" With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am. "

" When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it's something good, something worth checking out. "